My wife and I are great fans of TGIFriday’s and we especially love dining at the Alabang Town Center branch. It’s almost as if it’s a sacred ritual for us to dine there every time we go back home to visit the Philippines. So in our visit last month we went to ATC for some [...]

Apple have just decided to shave off a couple of hundred bucks from the 13″ Retina MacBook Pro’s price tag and they’ve also cut-down the price for the high-end 13″ MacBook Air. I guess the rumor is true, that come June of this year all MacBooks will be refreshed with “Haswell” 4th-gen Core family processors. That the price cuts were made to [...]

The year is nearing to a close and 2012 has truly been a phenomenal year. A lot of milestones took place this this year, most of them are such blessings that I am truly thankful for; like my son’s first birthday and having my mom fly over for the first time so she can celebrate it [...]

Requirement is for a mobile app project , but the resource should be able to provide the following as well: Tactical visual design support The odd missing icon, Low-level missing screens or gaps, e.g. settings – based on the overall UX framework already established by SIngTel Size variation (E.g. Three screen dimensions for Android and [...]

A Singapore-based company is urgently looking for Developers for a 4-6 weeks contract. Prefers locally available candidates, but can consider candidates who can travel to Singapore once or twice. Python Developer: Work with OpenCV library (Python bindings already available) Simple server with API Simple web GUI (client) Work with the filesystem Android Developer: Create a library [...]

One of the ethical issues that creatives face from time to time is the question of whether to freely hand over your Working Files or Source Files as a part of your deliverable. In my humble opinion, handing over the source files for free per se isn’t the real issue here — it’s the possible repercussions of doing so. [...]

Graphic Designer – 6 months contract REQUIREMENTS: EXPERIENCE 3+ years of experience as creative artist or graphics designer in software industry. Strong creative skills and understanding of user interface design principles and patterns and how, why, and when to apply them. Understanding of best practices and state of the art in human-computer interaction and related [...]

In this technologically advanced age of high-performance ultra-portable laptops, having the Adobe Creative Suite already available via Cloud Computing, and where every other tool that a designer needs to get work done is being ported to mobile devices as a downloadable app — tech-lovin’ kids might be surprised to see that there are some of us who still carry a sketchbook along with our MacBook [...]

Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 software delivers even more imaging magic, new creative options, and the Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine for blazingly fast performance. Retouch with new Content-Aware features, and create superior designs as well as movies using new and reimagined tools and workflows. In this HOW DesignCast, Adobe Worldwide Design Evangelist, Terry White will: Enhance your [...]

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Join Terry White, Adobe Design Evangelist, to see Adobe Creative Cloud and the new features in Creative Suite 6 in action. Learn how you can create at lightning speed thanks to new performance engines in Photoshop Extended and Illustrator. Easily create seamlessly repeating vector patterns with fun, new [...]

  “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players:” –William Shakespear, All the world’s a stage All of us have been given a chance to become what we want to and be where we want to be. And as long as you’re not a close-minded xenophobe or one of those who are utterly oblivious [...]

Thank God it feels like I’m just playing around whenever I am designing. When I was a kid I’ve always believed that when I grow up I’ll be paid to do the things I enjoy doing. So at first I thought I’ll be paid to play video games all day long, that didn’t happen… damn. Then in my teens, when [...]

Taking Advantage of the Mobile Web Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern Sponsored by: Webvanta  Mobile phones, with their capable web browsers and ability to run apps, have created the biggest new publishing and marketing opportunity since the dawn of the web. Hundreds of millions of people now use smartphones to access the web, [...]

As designers, most of us had to deal with parting ways with clients – for whatever reasons they may be: end of contract, unreconcilable differences, etc. Most of the time we wish them well with their business and/or their precious projects that we’ve diligently worked on – which we know at the back of our minds [...]